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if you don't know, think of detroit. would you lend to detroit today? you wouldn't. you would want to find out what happens to others who lend to detroit. there is the longer-term agenda. that has to do with potential growth. that speaks to education. it speaks to some micro things that we should be doing. one of the problems of the fed being the center of attention is it diverts discussion away from other things. there is this whole set of other things that are more important for us and for the next generation, that this whole narrative have shifted away from. >> as chief of the white house global council of economics, what types of new projects are you working on? >> you have promoted me. [laughter] i am grateful to be chair of the council on global development. the notion is very simple. part of securing u.s. national security and economic future and living in a global neighborhood that is more prosperous. it has had numerous advantages. the idea is to contribute and bring in outside perception. we are a council made of people from very different backgrounds and e
if you don't know, think of detroit. would you lend to detroit today? you wouldn't. you would want to find out what happens to others who lend to detroit. there is the longer-term agenda. that has to do with potential growth. that speaks to education. it speaks to some micro things that we should be doing. one of the problems of the fed being the center of attention is it diverts discussion away from other things. there is this whole set of other things that are more important for us and for...
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. >> let's go to our student line, nicole is in detroit. caller: i am currently a student at wayne state university. the question is is college worth the cost. right now, i feel it is not worth the cost. we are facing a situation where i -- i may not be able to pay for classes in the fall. not even over an academic issue, but over the contract i have with housing. i might be kicked out of school this semester. >> you have a conflict with what? caller: with the housing right now. >> is that because it is too expensive or there are too many people in the housing unit? caller: detroit just filed for bankruptcy. they are trying to increase my tuition. housing is too much. >> nicole, thank you for calling in and sharing your story. this was the subject of an article earlier this week, and they pulled him out about student loans. "more students rely than ever on federal student loans aid." she covered today's speech by president obama and we spoke to her earlier in the afternoon for her thoughts. what new ground did the president break in calls f
. >> let's go to our student line, nicole is in detroit. caller: i am currently a student at wayne state university. the question is is college worth the cost. right now, i feel it is not worth the cost. we are facing a situation where i -- i may not be able to pay for classes in the fall. not even over an academic issue, but over the contract i have with housing. i might be kicked out of school this semester. >> you have a conflict with what? caller: with the housing right now....
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>> joy. >> i'm joy from detroit. crazy and exaggerated. should be added to the list of what is happening with voter sup presentation. 5252% of blacks in michigan. [inaudible] they can't vote. they have no right to vote. that voter suppression. when you take away the right to vote, it's not just the voter id. it's terrible. it's taking away early voting is terrible. when anybody on this panel and anywhere else talks about voter suppression, you must know what is happening with the emergency -- it's straight up voter suppression added to the right to work business which is undercutting organized labor. in the state where uaw was founded and have been torn -- it's not just somebody's right to work. it's the right to work for nothing. right to work with no benefits and also tear down the union because they're the ones that help fund the progressive cat. it's an attack on the man in the white house. there's a plan being paid to take over black cities in louisiana doing the same thing in michigan. we will not have the kind of turnout we've had i
>> joy. >> i'm joy from detroit. crazy and exaggerated. should be added to the list of what is happening with voter sup presentation. 5252% of blacks in michigan. [inaudible] they can't vote. they have no right to vote. that voter suppression. when you take away the right to vote, it's not just the voter id. it's terrible. it's taking away early voting is terrible. when anybody on this panel and anywhere else talks about voter suppression, you must know what is happening with the...
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we dealt with the attempted christmas day coming aboard an airliner down for detroit. 20 10 air cargo threat as well as other plots that were effectively mitigated. some more international in scope and origin like the christmas they plot was involved a nigerian citizen who purchased his ticket in ghama,. flew from legos to amsterdam and attended to ignite a bomb en route to america. from that attempted attack, we learned that relevant information possessed by u.s. customs and border protection needed to be available overseas at the last point of departure for the united states. we fixed that. we learned that our adversaries were moving to nonmetallic devices. we adapted our screening technology and tactics to counter that. and we learned that a single vulnerability in any part of the aviation system can make everyone connected to it vulnerable. since we don't control security at foreign airports, we have to work even more closely with international partners to raise the overall security of the system. we did that. shortly after the christmas day plot, i launched a worldwide initiative
we dealt with the attempted christmas day coming aboard an airliner down for detroit. 20 10 air cargo threat as well as other plots that were effectively mitigated. some more international in scope and origin like the christmas they plot was involved a nigerian citizen who purchased his ticket in ghama,. flew from legos to amsterdam and attended to ignite a bomb en route to america. from that attempted attack, we learned that relevant information possessed by u.s. customs and border protection...
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but growing up in the north, in detroit, i lived the dream that dr. king spoke of. i went to integrated schools. i lived in an integrated neighborhood. my friends were both white and black, all through school. it disturbed my mother and it disturbs me that people in the south had problems, they could not live the life that i lived. we dined at lunch counters and took public transportation in contrast to what you heard about rosa parks and others. we rode on the bus -- it was called the dsr then. and we would ride wherever we wanted to go and sit wherever we wanted to sit. coming to the march for us meant supporting the travesties that were happening in the south. and not just my mother and i, obviously. 250,000 people felt the same way. those that could get there. there were many who watched from their tv's at home that felt the same way and just could not get there. we knew and understood that in this country, america, there is a democracy, there is supposed to be freedom, that there was not freedom in the south. and we had to unite and stand together. as a child,
but growing up in the north, in detroit, i lived the dream that dr. king spoke of. i went to integrated schools. i lived in an integrated neighborhood. my friends were both white and black, all through school. it disturbed my mother and it disturbs me that people in the south had problems, they could not live the life that i lived. we dined at lunch counters and took public transportation in contrast to what you heard about rosa parks and others. we rode on the bus -- it was called the dsr...
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paul kuntzler was born in detroit, michigan, in 1941 and raised at grosse pointe there before moving to washington, d.c. in 1951, he was active with the michigan young democrats and the congress on racial he called it. he credits john f. kinney as a major influence on his political consciousness. iin december 19 city with a move to washington, d.c. just days before his 20th birthday. he attended both the northern virginia center of the university of virginia and george mason university. for 32 years he was on the senior staff of the national science speakers association as assistant executive director for advertising exhibits an exhibitor workshops. in 1962, he was elected to the board of directors of the society of washington, the districts first gay-rights group. on april 17, 1965, he was one of 10 people in the world's first gay-rights picket in front of the white house. he is also one of the founders of the gay and lesbian activists alliance. he has an incredible memory are displayed by his tendency to recall events not just by the day but down to the days of the week. [laughter]
paul kuntzler was born in detroit, michigan, in 1941 and raised at grosse pointe there before moving to washington, d.c. in 1951, he was active with the michigan young democrats and the congress on racial he called it. he credits john f. kinney as a major influence on his political consciousness. iin december 19 city with a move to washington, d.c. just days before his 20th birthday. he attended both the northern virginia center of the university of virginia and george mason university. for 32...
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it's like they want us to be detroit. you got no votes from the state. thank you, oklahoma. but we are paying for it. and he does an end run around everybody. what can we do to get oklahomans working, to get these things implemented without them sitting up there and saying, this is what you're going to do? instead of the people that run this country. >> gosh -- [applause] >> you know, i would tell you, don't blame it all on obama because there were uncontrolled bureaucracies under george bush. it goes back to the thing we kind of started out with. the federal government is out of control. but it has been predicted by all of the historians that the republic would fail. the question is, how do we teach history, go back, every embrace the thing that made america great? and as i said earlier, i think we have to get in charge. i have been working for nine years to try to make a big difference. i have made a small difference. i worked every day trying to do things. i am convinced the only way we do that is half the state start exerting their temporary authority and reassessing --
it's like they want us to be detroit. you got no votes from the state. thank you, oklahoma. but we are paying for it. and he does an end run around everybody. what can we do to get oklahomans working, to get these things implemented without them sitting up there and saying, this is what you're going to do? instead of the people that run this country. >> gosh -- [applause] >> you know, i would tell you, don't blame it all on obama because there were uncontrolled bureaucracies under...
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we've got a unit in detroit, michigan and is providing protection in a large number of individual small reserve units. you'll be happy to know that my standard quest today after i get done with this mess where do you remember the reserve officers association? and have you paid your dues? most of that get me a bit curious. and when i get done, i said in about nine hours i will be speaking to the reserve officers association and for a fact i pulled out my notebook and said i'm taking names. so the next few days, your membership committee is busier than usual. i'm going to take a little bit of credit for that. [applause] frankly, beyond that he no the more important reason i'm glad it's such an influential unengaged amount of leaders. i've got a great deal about dinesen about where we are in the campaign right now. there are challenges and i will address those, but we have a real opportunity to be successful. i am mindful that not everybody shares my optimism. i am sure most of you saw the recent poll that said 67% of americans believe the war in afghanistan has not been worth fighting. 43
we've got a unit in detroit, michigan and is providing protection in a large number of individual small reserve units. you'll be happy to know that my standard quest today after i get done with this mess where do you remember the reserve officers association? and have you paid your dues? most of that get me a bit curious. and when i get done, i said in about nine hours i will be speaking to the reserve officers association and for a fact i pulled out my notebook and said i'm taking names. so...
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eddy, i just mentioned he was the kid from detroit who was drafted. he had the virtue of writing to his wife every day while he was in the service. he ended up being sent to the 28th infantry division, deserted out immediately. was hanging out with the canada unit for awhile. he was court marble -- marbled. he refused the offer to basically have the sentence set aside if he would go back to combat. he said i'll desert again. his appeal came to eisenhower in 19 e at the darkest time. eisenhower was not in a forgiving mood. unfortunately for him, eisenhower affirmed the death sentence, and eisenhower said that his unit, the 28th division was to carry out the execution. i described how he is transported by mp, military policeman, were the 28th division was and firing squad was set up. i think he believed to the very end that he was going to be -- the sentence would be commuted. it was not. they shot him dead. the division commander was a guy named norm who was at omaha beach. the the worse of all the battle. he was in the battle of the bulge when shot to
eddy, i just mentioned he was the kid from detroit who was drafted. he had the virtue of writing to his wife every day while he was in the service. he ended up being sent to the 28th infantry division, deserted out immediately. was hanging out with the canada unit for awhile. he was court marble -- marbled. he refused the offer to basically have the sentence set aside if he would go back to combat. he said i'll desert again. his appeal came to eisenhower in 19 e at the darkest time. eisenhower...